Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes1-2D. Appleton and Company, 1896 |
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... temper was serious , perhaps stern ; but it was a temper which no sufferings could render sullen or fretful . Such as it was , when , on the eve of great events , he returned from his travels , in the prime of health and manly beauty ...
... temper was serious , perhaps stern ; but it was a temper which no sufferings could render sullen or fretful . Such as it was , when , on the eve of great events , he returned from his travels , in the prime of health and manly beauty ...
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... tempers more amiable , their tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not strictly belong to any of the classes which we have described . He was not a Puritan . He was not a freethinker . He was not a ...
... tempers more amiable , their tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not strictly belong to any of the classes which we have described . He was not a Puritan . He was not a freethinker . He was not a ...
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... tempers were mild and equable , and who possesssed an amplitude and subtlety of mind , which would have rendered them eminent either in active or in contemplative life , and fitted them either to govern or to instruct mankind . Every ...
... tempers were mild and equable , and who possesssed an amplitude and subtlety of mind , which would have rendered them eminent either in active or in contemplative life , and fitted them either to govern or to instruct mankind . Every ...
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... temper careless , arbitrary , and petu- lant ; that he indulges his own humour without caring whose feelings he may wound , or whose enmity he may pro- voke by his levity . Thus far criticism will go . But something is still wanting . A ...
... temper careless , arbitrary , and petu- lant ; that he indulges his own humour without caring whose feelings he may wound , or whose enmity he may pro- voke by his levity . Thus far criticism will go . But something is still wanting . A ...
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... temper of the ladies . But these adjectives are mere customary additions . They merge in the substantives to which they are attached . If they at all colour the idea , it is with a tinge so slight , as in no respect to alter the general ...
... temper of the ladies . But these adjectives are mere customary additions . They merge in the substantives to which they are attached . If they at all colour the idea , it is with a tinge so slight , as in no respect to alter the general ...
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